Sophie Lewis

What's up? And you don't really want to egg them on by being like, yeah, I know you're paying attention to me.

But, you know, they got really mad about our socialism conference panel last year with Sophie Lewis and Melissa Geragrant.

They got really mad about our panel that was called Health Politics After Luigi, something like that.

Another I'd encourage people to listen to.

So here's what got me thinking about all of this.

I learned that Sophie Lewis, an author whose book is literally titled Abolish the Family, a Manifesto for Care and Liberation, was paid to be a keynote speaker at a division of the American Psychological Association conference in New York in April 2026.

Her talk was titled Destroy the Family to Realize Its Promise.

And I remember thinking, destroy the family to realize its promise? What does that actually mean? And why is this idea being discussed at a major professional psychology conference, a space where professionals go to learn about mental health, relationships, and human development? She has also been invited to speak at a number of universities on this topic.

Yeah, because these ideas really only sound good to those who haven't experienced much life yet.

In her book, Abolish the Family, A Manifesto for Care and Liberation, Sophie Lewis argues that we need to rethink the traditional family and how we raise children and care for one another.

She sees traditional family structures as reinforcing unequal power dynamics.

For example, she questions the authority parents have over their children, traditional roles within marriage, and the expectation that families should be primarily responsible for caring for their own members.

It's just not really what I want to read right now.

And then the next book which I DNF'd was called, I think it's called Full Surrogacy Now by Sophie Lewis.

And I, so when it comes to nonfiction, I read a lot of nonfiction books, right? And, but for some reason, I still cannot shake the feeling that if I don't understand a nonfiction book, I must be some big dummy dum-dum.

Like that's how it feels.

So that was a foundational text.

I'm currently reading, uh, Sophie Lewis' Enemy Feminisms, which is a- again, a really, really important book, um, because it talks about how feminism is given to, uh, groups of women and ideas that are not doing women any favors.

So for example, some suffragettes were Nazis.

Obviously, we've got TERFs that don't do women in general any favors, never mind trans women.

They've got

like 3,000 members, you know, it's four presumably therapists, and they've got a keynote speaker by someone named Sophie Lewis, who's the co-translator of Communism for Kids.

And she's author of the book Abolish the Family, a Manifesto for Care and Liberation.

Her talks is titled Family Abolition as Care Communization.